And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.

And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand. [The Septuagint has here, instead of "with the Hagarites," pros tous paroikous, with the neighbours.] Individual tribes often waged separate wars, and obtained successes over conterminous but hostile neighbours, by means of which they enlarged their territories, even in the reign of Saul.

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